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Cheaper and best bang for the buck when it comes to price - performance. I went AMD over intel due to pricing. I got some of my parts of this build from Walmart since i have a discount with them so i save even more money from them.

Got this for $280 total on Walmart after taxes and discount. Plus, i have sold the included wraith prism for 120mm aio for $50. So, it is like i got the cpu for $230.

I was originally going to get the R5 1600 but then I found out that the Zen+ cpu's were coming out in a months time so I decided to hold off for them, i'm happy with my choice of cpu here, even though I'll never use the full potential its nice to know I have it.

Excellent price to performance. While it is certainly a step down from Ryzen 3000, and the 3600 would have been a better choice for framerate in games, you can't beat $130 for 8 cores/16 threads. I do intend on some light render work in the future, so this processor would edge out the 3600 in this regard. Very pleased with this pick.

The AMD Ryzen 7 - 2700X is by far the best AMD CPU I have ever own, coming from an FX-8350 and FX-8370 systems, flexing its, true, eight cores and sixteen threads, it has been more than capable to handle everything I put it through, this being extreme workloads, intensive gaming session, and me learning how to overclock. Speaking of overclocking, earlier in my CPU’s life I was able to hit a stable 4.15 GHz overclock at 1.390 volts, but I stop there for the following reason. While it did score much higher in Cinebench than the stock frequency, the performance increase in game was small. At the stock clock frequency, my CPU runs at a consistent 4.0 GHz and will go as high as 4.5 GHz when under a load. Now, I will admit that Intel would've been a better choice for gaming, but my setup doubles as a workstation so I regret nothing. Not only that, but it is a huge improvement over the AMD FX-8350 and FX-8370 I had in my previous build.

Very happy with this product, wasn't sure if I want to give AMD a chance or go with Intel like always, but let me tell you, AMD is the bomb, if you are also undecided what to choose, think no more! This CPU slaughters Video editing and Gaming alike, even Internet Explorer works a bit faster on this.